More than 800 Dealers, dealership staff and allied industries spent a valuable two days at the 2017 AADA National Dealer Convention, at the Sydney International Convention Centre, at Darling Harbour, this week. In what was one of the best AADA…

More than 35,000 add-on insurance customers will receive up to $15.9 million in refunds for insurance bought through car dealerships. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) found that QBE Insurance (Australia) Guaranteed Asset Protection (GAP) and Consumer Credit Insurance…

Automotive advertising in Australia rose by almost $47 million in the 2017 financial year as part of a record total ad market spend of $7.1 billion. Figures released by Standard Media Index (SMI) reveals that Automotive is the largest product…

It’s been a tough few years if you were selling Commodores and Falcons, as the rise of the SUV has been accompanied by an increase in the number of luxury vehicles sold. A slowing of that growth in the first…

A Sydney lawyer has announced a class action lawsuit against Toyota, Honda and Mazda, seeking refunds for cars fitted with faulty airbags from Takata, linked to 18 deaths around the world. Lawyer, Damian Scattini, said the Federal Court action is…

In October the NSW Government will launch the first-ever series of On Demand public transport trials, which will bring the bus to commuters. Minister for Transport and Infrastructure, Andrew Constance, said the trials were a first for NSW and would…

This article is a departure from the normal Motorsport theme, but having just returned from Detroit’s 2017 Woodward Dream Cruise, I am taking some ‘car licence’ to have a rave about this remarkable event. In 1995 I had to take…

In a time when cost management is at the forefront of most dealership managers’ minds, is it worth revisiting traditional commission structures in order to align employees’ interests with those of the business? With employee costs representing the largest expense…

AADA invites Dealers to join us on our study tour to the 2018 National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) Convention in Las Vegas next March. NADA is one of the most powerful advocacy groups in the USA. Its membership of 19,000…

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